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Postings from February 2004
Andreas Jaekel <jaekel@cablecats.de> writes:
>> >The "perluniintro" man page gives example code on how to do that:
>> >
>> > use Encode 'encode_utf8';
>> > if(encode_utf8($buf)) { ...
>>
>> That is the wrong way round. You have raw octets you want to see
>> if they are characters.
>> So you want to _decode_ them and see if it works.
>
>Decode does work! My problem is solved! Thank you very much!
>
>I took the sample code from the man page I mentioned (perluniintro), I
>just checked again. The sample code uses encode_utf8:
>
> [...]
> if (encode_utf8($string_of_bytes_that_I_think_is_utf8)) {
> [...]
>
>The whole "encode" and "decode" is pretty confusing to me as it is,
>(encode to what? decode from where? "encode to perl-internal?")
>but please consider making my life easier by fixing the man page :)
Yes we should